THOUGHTS OF THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 256, 8 April 1915, Page 5

THOUGHTS OF THE WAR.

THE BETTER WAY.

There is no way of stopping this scientific development of warfare without a common law against war equipment, the setting up by a confederation of States, above all existing governments of a common law that shall rule the earth.—H. G. Wells.

THE PERIL. I have no fear for the issue except that tardiness may retard it—l have no fear for the issue if we only stand true to ourselves and face the truth, and realise the vital importance of the crisis in which we are destined to live. —Roseberry.

A PEACE LOVER'S VIEW.

If the allies win there is no alternative but to reduce Germany to stick a rendition that her insane militarism shall be put hors do combat for long years to come. There ia no alternative, because she lias revealed her hand too dearly as a menace—if she should prevail—of barbarous force to the wholo world.—Edward Carpenter.

.SCIENTIST AND GERMAN BE, SEARCH.

The late Professor Huxley often remarked' to me upon the exaggerated nature of the reputation for learning and scientific capacity which tlie Germans had created for themselves, and, further, in the last conversation which I had, with my lifelong friend Ingram Bywater, he pointed out to me at length the baselessness of the view that Genman learning was of an original and specially valuable, character. Ho attributed that reputation to their self-as-sertive methods and the want of fairness and good tastet in the textbooks ! with which many of them inundate the academic world.—Sir E. Ray Lankester.